Titled:  Saddam's Missing WMD

AlphaPatroit points to an interesting and potentially game-changing story about Saddam's WMD involvement. Not only is there now a new solid source that his WMDs were moved to Syria, but also that Iraq was preparing a chemical strike against Israel on the eve of the First Gulf War.

The NY Sun reports:

The man who served as the no. 2 official in Saddam Hussein's air force says Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft in which the passenger seats were removed.

The flights - 56 in total, Mr. Sada said - attracted little notice because they were thought to be civilian flights providing relief from Iraq to Syria, which had suffered a flood after a dam collapse in June of 2002.

The book also says that on the eve of the first Gulf War, Saddam was planning to use his air force to launch a chemical weapons attack on Israel.

The most interesting thing here for me is what happens if this is proven true and the WMDs are recoverd - the left would have a lot of answering to do.

"Bush lied - people died" becomes "Bush told the Truth - people died because the lunatic left lied about it for political gain".

For the GOP, ideally this will all come to be in mid 2008, just prior to elections, when the dems will be repeating the "lied" mantra as loudly as they can.

The fact that suppport for military action in Iran is as high as 57% already, despite the left's hatred of the action in Iraq, points to further gains if the central plank of their anti-war ideology is removed.

Maybe the GOP already knows the facts but can't prove them yet. Letting the Dems continue to build their party around the WMD issue could by Rove's best move yet.